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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Global Supply Chain"”.
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Global supply chain design and optimization methodology
… on ACS's manufacturing strategy regarding its global supply chain design, primarily discussing the manufacturing growth opportunities available in emerging regions. Honeywell ACS's current methodology for the development of a long-term manufacturing strategy is based on growth and total cost …
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Strategic cost management in a global supply chain
… downturn, cost has become a focal point of supply chain management. Cost management is increasingly being recognized as a vital core competency needed for survival. As companies transition from being vertically integrated to pursuing increasingly outsourced manufacturing strategies, modeling …
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Where India fits within Flextronics global supply chain
… manufacturing strategy regarding its global supply chain design, and its export strategy from India. It also focuses on the application of the Flextronics case to the question of India's role in global electronics manufacturing. Following China's successful economic model, India is …
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Essays on Risk Mitigation Methods in Global Supply Chain Management
… we study risk mitigation methods in the area of global supply chain management. Recent economic uncertainties such as the U.S. credit and the Greek debt crises, and natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami create a greater amount of uncertainty and risk for global supply chain operations. …
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Essays on Service Information, Retrials and Global Supply Chain Sourcing
… we propose a comprehensive model framework for global sourcing location decision process. For decades, off-shoring of manufacturing to China and other low-cost countries was a no-brainer decision for many U.S. companies. In recent years, however, this trend is being challenged by some companies …
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Improving the risk identification process for a global supply chain
… risks that could materialize within a company's supply chain that would affect component supply. The process is based on a specific situation at Nokia though is intended to extend to other companies that rely extensively on outsourced component manufacturing. An analysis of the current risk …
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Multi-scale inventory balancing in an extended global supply chain
… since its inception in 1984. Regarded as a supply chain innovator, Dell has attained success through industry-revolutionizing ideas such as vendor-managed inventory, pull manufacturing, and direct sales. Today, continuance of revenue growth for Dell requires not only rapid innovation, but …
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Managing a global supply chain with durable arm's-length supplier relationships
… technology and increased competition have made supply chain management and purchasing more and more critical in determining a companies competitiveness. Many industrial firms spend more than one half of every sales dollar on purchased products, and this percentage has been increasing with recent …
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Extreme weather disaster resilient port and waterway infrastructure for sustainable global supply chain
Global supply chain is largely dependent on seaports and marine terminals. Ports serve international cargo traffic for imports and exports. About 90% of the world’s goods are transported by sea and over 70% as containerized cargo ships. Coastal hurricanes/cyclones and rainfall flood disasters cause …
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A collaborative framework for feasibility analysis in automotive product development with global supply chain
… by involving the support functions of the supply chain to a greater extent and also earlier in the NPD process. There is a potential industrial requirement for a collaborative framework that facilitates the linkage between Supply Chain Management (SCM) and New Product Development (NPD). …
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Global Supply Chain and Competitive Business Strategies: A Case Study of Blood Sugar Monitoring Industry
… the market share. The case studied is the global blood sugar monitoring industry. The demand structure of the market is modeled considering four major companies in three regional markets; Asia, Europe, North America. LifeScan Inc., a Johnson & Johnson Company, is selected as the focus of …
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Improving Labor Market Design to Reduce Labor Abuse in the Global Supply Chain in Southeast Asia
… labor abuse have become a growing concern in the global supply chain. Evidence suggest that more than 25 million people are victims of forced labor, and that much of this problem stem from the recruitment process. In collaboration with the Issara Institute (Issara), a non-profit organization based …
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A holistic approach to finished goods inventory in a global supply chain : analysis and trade-offs
… as well as a methodology that will be used globally. Key decision makers have also gained greater intuition on the tradeoffs associated with these integrated decisions and have a tool that helps quantify the impacts of changes such as improved forecast accuracy, increased ocean shipment, and …
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Geospatial Analysis of the Global Supply Chain and Transportation Infrastructure Considering Extreme Weather, Climate, and Sustainable Energy Policies
… routes play the most crucial role in the global supply chain, allowing people to maintain their standard of living. Once ashore, the delivery routes to five major metropolitan market cities were optimized for the lowest shipping costs for road and freight rail. The costs of transportation …
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Continuous improvement at a multinational company : dealing with uncertainty in the global supply chain and analyzing implementation dynamics
This thesis explores the problem of global supply chain flexibility in the context of a multinational commonly that we refer to as Company X. Company X faces competitive markets, increasingly demanding customers, and internal challenges due to the global extension of previously local business …
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Design and optimization of global distribution supply chain at McCain Foods
… used by numerous organizations to achieve supply chain excellence through cost effectiveness and superior utilization of resources. This thesis addresses how network optimization methods can be used to provide guidance in the process of creating a company's global supply chain strategy. In …
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Essays on optimization and incentive contracts
… contracts in a single-supplier, multi-retailer supply chain where retailers make both pricing and inventory decisions. Specifically, we introduce a buy-back menu contract to improve supply chain efficiency, and compare two systems, one in which the retailers compete against each other, and …
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Vendor Managed Inventory: A new approach to supply chain management
The Global Supply Chain Forum (Stanford Global Supply Chain Forum Web Resource, http://www.stanford.edu/groups/scforum) defines supply chain management (SCM) as “Supply chain management is the integration of key business processes from end user through original suppliers that provides products, …
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The Logistical Mode of Production: Logistics as a Total Way of Life
… Formerly confined to the governance of commodity chains, logistics’ influence has grown into a pervasive social rationality that promotes endless circulation and perpetual uncertainty as inextricable realities of contemporary life. Its ubiquity, I argue, is creating an altogether new global …
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